Hello,OGR has only some WUs left and we are going to finish the project. Therfore I encourage all users to use only small buffers. Otherwise the OGR would already be crunched by somebody else and the result does not help the project to finish.

Some weeks ago I changed already some settings for OGR Boinc WUs:- deadline is now only 7 days, before it was 14 days- there are no resends anymore- only 1000 unsent WUs, before it was 5000- only 8 ogr in one Boinc WU, before it was 9

Additional I have 50.000 ogr in my dnet proxy. I'm thinking to reduce these also.

It is a great pleasure for us to announce that OGR-25p2 was fullycompleted a just short while ago! We'll be providing some finaldetails regarding the mathematical results from the projectcompletion, as well as the details of our new project, later today.

With that in mind, I'd like to recommend that your clients areswitched over to RC5-72 as soon as is practical for you to do so. Formany of you, this is a non-issue, as your client will switch overautomatically. We will shortly be rolling out a new project which wehave been working on and hope that you can bear with us as we completeour preparations.

A little over eight years ago, distributed.net users undertook thesearch for the optimal 25 mark Golomb Ruler. This year sees thesuccessful conclusion of that effort. We have proven conclusively bythe exhaustive search of all possible rulers that the previouslypredicted 25-mark ruler is indeed the most optimal one.

This shortest ruler was found by two independent computers. Theinitial report was received on October 10th, 2007 and a second,matching result was returned on March 24th, 2008. However it was notuntil the final stub was returned and verified that we could rule outthe possibility of a still-shorter ruler. This final stub was returnedon October 24th, 2008 drawing to a close the complete search of allpossible stubs. Due to the nature of an exhaustive search,distributed.net users have also proven that the above solution isunique (the ruler's mirror notwithstanding).

To celebrate the successful end of yet another distributed.net projectall our contributors are invited for a drink...when we find a placelarge enough to host the 124,387 people that participated in thisparticular distributed effort.

As previously mentioned, a successful match of the shortest ruler wasfound by two independent computers. We'll be sending those two userssome free distributed.net swag and shirts for their noteworthycontributions to the project. We'll also be sending some swag to theuser that submitted that last confirmed stub. (At the time of writing,we had not yet received permission from those three users regardingthe publication of their identities.)